RATS RAID BARRACKS.
fiy'liL between nils and n police constable "early one recent morning outside the Rust Cavalry Barracks in" Barrack Road, Aldershot. Is described by P.C. Regers’ who was on patrol duty. When lie approached the forage burn, be s i vs, lie found about 100 rats swarming ovci the roof and licking the morning dew fioni tile slates. I.)t awing his ,stall', lie said,, he attacked the rats, lint instead of taking to flight the famished rats made a stand, and some el them even sprang at (he constable as lie raise his staff to strike them. Then, as a bugle sounded tin; Reveille in tin' neighbouring barracks, one of the rats, which P.G. Rogers describes as a “leader” or commander, gave a peculiar r-pieak and the whole "‘army" fled. leaving i illy one dead rat as a victim.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3333, 9 August 1926, Page 2
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